Sometimes the Negroes themselves arranged the festival and invited prominent whites, for whom a separate table attended by Negro waiters was reserved; and after dinner there followed speeches by both whites and blacks.
With the organization of the League, the Negroes grew more reserved, and finally became openly unfriendly to the whites.

The League alone, however, was not responsible for this change.

The League and the Bureau had to some extent the same personnel, and it is frequently impossible to distinguish clearly between the influence of the two.

In many ways the League was simply the political side of the Bureau.

The preaching and teaching missionaries were also at work.